HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080810680
Bassin de Río Paraguay
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Bermejo, Humaitá
Sub-basin area
25,8km²
Upstream area
1 132 758,6km²
Discharge
5 482,84m³/s
Mean elev.
56m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Paraguay558 km²
- Bassin de Río Paraguay356 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 23.9 km²92.7% of basin
- 1.9 km²7.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Humedales Chaco
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
2.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
184 distinct species · 823 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Paraguay : 27 espèces reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,0°C
Annual rain
1 317mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
251mm/an
PET
1 517mm
AET
1 115mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
19cm
Forest
76%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)